The Hundred-Foot Journey – #Foodie Friday – Omelette Aux Fines Herbes

I am excited to be bringing you weekly recipes, so far anyways, to bring awareness to the DreamWorks picture The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring the fabulous Helen Mirren. This film sounds fantastic and looks amazing. Here is a little quote telling what the picture is about and then you’ll find the terrific recipe of the week. After the recipe, I will share the trailer for this charming picture, which is a tale of a battle between chefs and worlds and a meeting of the minds.

“In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant – the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant a hundred feet from her own, escalate to all out war between the two establishments – until Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme. Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavors of life that even Mme. Mallory cannot ignore. At first Mme. Mallory’s culinary rival, she eventually recognizes Hassan’s gift as a chef and takes him under her wing.

“The Hundred-Foot Journey” abounds with flavors that burst across the tongue. A stimulating triumph over exile, blossoming with passion and heart, with marjoram and madras, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, in every pot, wherever he may be.”

Back when I was young, carefree and utterly oblivious to concerns like Cholesterol… I once (a perk of being a young and carefree travel agent ~ once upon a time…) travelled through Europe (especially France ~ but all over really ~ in search of the perfect OMELETTE! While I admit to sampling a kinds of omelettes, truly the ultimate omelette (and test of omelette making ability) has to be the Omelette aux Fines Herbes ~ which demands the freshest eggs, the freshest cut FINE herbs and a very deft hand with the pan! Some of the finest fine herb omelettes I enjoyed were in what I could call a French countryside TRUCK STOP.

Now that I am older, less carefree (and more aware of cholesterol) I still love a good omelette (and eaten in moderation EGGS are VERY healthy and close to being a perfect food. Unfortunately I discovered that with a few delightful exceptions (no, I’m not going to say “eggception!!!”) for the most part if you want a really really good omelette, you have to make it yourself and most places that serve breakfast have never even heard of “fine herbes” much less do they HAVE any!)

On the bright side, both my Honey/Hubby and me have become quite good at making nearly perfect omelette and we grow out own “Fines” (and “other”) herbs year ’round. I took me like FOREVER to finally master (well, just barely do a passing job, most of the time…) THE ROLL. One thing we have changed though: we no longer take the time to clarify the butter
We just don’t have the time or the patience for it! (Unless we are planning make some Indian food and so also need GHEE) but we DO only use UNSALTED BUTTER. (Frankly we ONLY use unsalted butter: it not only TASTES fresher, it IS fresher.

The movie sounds like a great storyline! I love that it features chefs and that the recipes featured in promotion have been relatively easy to make! I enjoy Hellen Mirren and can’t wait to watch The Hundred Foot Journey!

I think that this movie the 100 Foot Journey would be great and show how different cutlures contribute to each other and how we get along, I think it would be interesting to have some French Indian food, it would be fun to eat at the Maison Mumbai.

I LOVED this movie! It made me cry so hard when his hands got burned but I wanted so badly to be able to cook like he does even with burned hands. I love the sound of this recipe and I am def saving it and going to try it If I can make an omelet without it getting messed up I will consider myself lucky

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